[Air-L] Invitation to TikTok Creators and Digtial Economies symposium on October 6

[Zoetanya Sujon]

Dear lovely AoIR colleagues

We are delighted to invite you to the TikTok Creators and Digital Economies
Symposium on October 6, 2023. This symposium is a satellite event of the TikTok
Research Cultures Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/> in collaboration
with the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub
<https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/digital-cultures-and-economies-research-hub>
.


   - Date: October 6, 2023
   - Times:
   - 8:00 - 16:40 (UK time / GMT)
      - 16:00 - 24:40 (AWST)
      -  4:00 - 12:40 (EDT)
   - Location: Online
   - Registration link:
   https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiktok-creators-and-digital-economies-symposium-tickets-719077198257?aff=oddtdtcreator
   <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiktok-creators-and-digital-economies-symposium-tickets-719077198257?aff=oddtdtcreator>

Free and open to all.

>From new dance challenges to instantly recognisable songs, TikTok is often
attributed with producing new global trends. Merging short form video,
popular and original music, hashtags, comments, and participatory features
like stitching and duets, TikTok provides a platform for ordinary users to
consume, create, play and participate in public conversations.

Creators benefit from new kinds of visibility and affective economies, yet
also complain of shadow bans, seemingly arbitrary limitations on views, and
algorithmic personalisation and circulation of content. The intersection
between TikTok culture and creator economies raise big questions about
emerging features of platformed economies. While TikTok’s niche creator
practices share common features across other social media and digital
platforms (Hardy 2022, Sujon 2021), TikTok’s specific approaches to
monetisation and affective entrepreneurialism raises questions about what
is distinct on TikTok for creator economies.

The plenary discussion features leading scholars in the field:

   - Thomas Poell
   <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html#Profile> (University
   of Amsterdam), Institutional Perspectives on TikTok and Cultural Production
   - Francesca Sobande <https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/sobandef>
(University
   of Cardiff), Racial Capitalism and Digital Economies of "Intersectionality"

The symposium is a satellite event of the TikTok Research Cultures Network
<https://tiktokcultures.com/>, in collaboration with the Digital Cultures
and Economies Research Hub
<https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/digital-cultures-and-economies-research-hub>.
It brings together current work which opens up these dynamics, examining
emerging forms of cultural production and also their economic consequences
for creators, citizens, consumers, advertisers, and platforms.
Organized by: Zoetanya Sujon, Irida Ntalla, Jackie Raphael-Luu, Sevil
Yesiloglu, Jonathan Hardy, Yue Qin, Yingwen Wang, and Fancheng MengContact:
DCE at lcc.arts.ac.uk

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